Ronald Rae – Handcarved Granite Sculptures
A warm welcome to the Ronald Rae website. Enjoy the sculptures, drawings, book illustrations, cartoons, mixed media and poems by Ronald Rae, master carver and one of the most prolific and versatile artists in the UK.
Rae’s Featured Works.
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1/12 Heavy Horse - Falkirk Wheel
Granite 7x10x5ft 10.00 tonnes. For sale. As you can see The Heavy Horse and Foal sculpture is a great favourite at The Falkirk Wheel. Heavy horses in days of yore, would have pulled the barges along the canal. The Ronald Rae Sculpture [ ... ]
2/12 Fallen Christ and Cow
Granite 5x8x7ft 7.00 tonnes. Location: Isle of Iona. The site for the Fallen Christ sculpture on Iona is on land where sheep and cattle freely graze. This touching photo of a cow nuzzling Christ's head was captured by David Coleman of th [ ... ]
3/12 Cramond Fish in Winter
Granite 7x10x6ft 8.00 tons. Location: Cramond Waterfront Here is a photo to cool you down this summer! It is also a reminder of how cold it was last winter with temperatures of minus 10 degrees recorded in Edinburgh. It is very unusual t [ ... ]
4/12 Arriving in St Andrew Square
Granite 8x17x6ft 20.00 tonnes. For sale. Location: St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Scroll down for short video of the move. On Sunday 25th April the Lion of Scotland sculpture left Holyrood Park after four years and made the mile long [ ... ]
5/12 Lion Being Washed
Granite 8x17x6ft 20.00 tons. Location: Now in St Andrew Square Garden. The controversial 20 tonne Lion of Scotland granite sculpture that has been a landmark in Holyrood Park for the past four years moved on Sunday 25th April to St Andre [ ... ]
6/12 Cramond Fish in Storm
Granite 7x10x6ft 8.00 tons. Location: Cramond Waterfront This spectacular photo of the Cramond Fish facing the elements of a Spring high tide and gale force winds on the Firth of Forth was captured by John Dods of the Cramond Associatio [ ... ]
7/12 St. Francis
Granite: 5x11x3ft. 6.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale. This emotive work depicts St. Francis lying in retreat on "that rugged rock twixt Tiber and Arno" as Dante described La Verna. The sculpture shows the saint surrounded [ ... ]
8/12 Cramond Fish
Granite 7 x 10 x 6ft 8.00 tonnes Location: Cramond Waterfront. The Cramond Fish A local community fundraising campaign resulted in the purchase of the Cramond Fish in April 2009 - a heartwarming experience for the sculptor who spent [ ... ]
9/12 Bison
Granite: 7x12x3ft 8.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale. Bison Carved in relief in Corrennie pink granite this work was inspired by prehistoric cave art. Rae carved out the background and left the image of the bison on the [ ... ]
10/12 Tyger Tyger
Granite: 8x22x3ft 15.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. Tyger Tyger Carved in Corrennie pink granite which is 460 million years old, this monumental relief celebrates William Blake’s well known poem. The sculpture also draws att [ ... ]
11/12 Lion Of Scotland
Granite: 8x17x7 ft 20.00 tons. Location: No longer at Holyrood Park, now in St Andrew Square Garden, Edinburgh. For Sale. Lion of Scotland The Lion is the traditional symbol both of power and of Scottish identity. The sculpture was i [ ... ]
12/12 Elephant Family
Granite: 7x11x5 ft. 10.00 tons. Location: The Falkirk Wheel. For Sale. Elephant Family On one side of the stone is the patriarch and on the other the matriarch and baby. This much-loved endangered species is a subject that Rae has ad [ ... ]


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